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While the ownership of the land now comprising Popponesset changed numerous times over its long history, it first became a resort area around 1917 when the beaches and sand dunes of Popponesset were sold in several land deals, including to the Trustees of Popponesset Lands and the Greater Cotuit Shore Company. According to Rosemary Love Burns in her book Mashpee in Words and Pictures, it was in 1929 that Popponesset, as a resort, began to take shape. It was at that time that thousands of acres of the pristine beach and wooded groves of pine trees were sold to the Nantucket Sound Association, which soon after was owned solely by Malcolm Chace, an industrialist who owned the Fields Point Manufacturing Corporation. ....

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